1. Creating Enterprise Visibility With GreenHopper
Michael de la Maza, PhD
December 6, 2012

2. Who is cPrime?
Engaged for Your Project Management Success

3. About Me
•Currently: Lean/agile coach at edx.org, the Harvard/MIT/Berkeley online education
nonprofit
•PhD in Computer Science from MIT
•Former Research Scientist at MIT Lincoln Lab
•Former VP of Corporate Strategy at Softricity (acquired by Microsoft)
•Member of founding team at Inquira (acquired by Oracle)
•During the past year, I have been an agile coach at PayPal, Symantec, and Blue Cross
•Previously, I have done agile training and coaching at Carbonite, EMC, Intuit, Verizon
Wireless, etc.
•Startup mentor at Blackbox.vc
•Created scruminschools.org
•Co-author of Professional Scrum with Team Foundation Server
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4. Agenda
• GreenHopper in one slide
• Customizing GreenHopper
• Using GreenHopper for Enterprise Visibility
• GreenHopper is part of the Atlassian suite
• Questions [15 minutes]

5. Survey: About You
What title best describes what you do?
• Project Manager
• Engineering Manager
• Product Manager
• Member of technical team
• Circus clown
• Other

6. Survey: About Your Company
How large is your company?
• One person (me, myself, and I)
• 2-50 people
• 51-200 people
• 201-1000 people
• 1000+ people

7. Survey: About Your Framework
Which of the following frameworks do you use?
• Scrum
• XP
• Other agile
• Waterfall

8. GreenHopper in one slide
• GreenHopper is a Jira extension. GreenHopper cannot
be used without Jira.
• GreenHopper adds three boards to Jira:
– Planning Board: Backlog
– Task Board: Work item progress
– Chart Board: Forecasts, velocity, burndown/burnup
• GreenHopper can be used for Scrum, Kanban, waterfall,
XP, etc.

9. Survey: You and GreenHopper
Where are you in your GreenHopper adoption?
• We started using GreenHopper over a year ago
• We started using GreenHopper less than a year ago
• We are evaluating GreenHopper and other tools and
plan to make a tool decision within three months
• Other

10. Two Steps to Increase Enterprise Visibility
1. Capture what your organization does in GreenHopper
2. Create a dashboard which makes the organization’s
activities visible

11. Survey: You and Enterprise Visibility
How good is the visibility in your enterprise?
• Excellent!  I can see for miles and miles.
• Ok
• Poor  11

12. Customizing GreenHopper
• GreenHopper is the most easily customizable agile tool. You can
create:
– Custom fields
– New issue types
– New issue states
– New workflow
• Customizing Greenhopper is not difficult but it typically takes a
person with Jira/GreenHopper “Admin” skills to do so.
• Buying GreenHopper and then not customizing it is like paying for a
Ferrari and settling for a Pinto.

13. Customization Example: Task Board Columns
1. Agile / Manage Boards
2. Add Column

14. Customization Hierarchy
Not
Obvious!

15. Customization Example: Custom Fields
1. Administration/Issues
2. Fields/Custom Fields
3. Add Fields

16. Customization Example: Moving Fields
1. Administration/Issues/Screens
2. Configure
3. Move/remove fields

17. Extended Customization Example
Right Size!

18. Extended Customization: Steps
1. Create new Issue Types
2. Create new Issue Type Scheme
3. Change Project’s Issue Type Scheme
4. Create Screen
5. Create Field
6. Create Screen Scheme
7. Create Issue Type Screen Scheme
8. Change Project’s Issue Type Screen Scheme

19. Create New Issue Types
1. Administration/Issues
2. Create Issue Type
3. Create Issue Type Scheme
4. Associate Scheme with project

20. Create New Issue Type Scheme
1. Administration/Issues/Issue Type Scheme
2. “Add Issue Type Scheme”
3. Create Issue Type Scheme

21. Change Project’s Issue Type Scheme
1. Administration/Projects Admin
2. Click “More” link in Issue Type Scheme
3. Change Issue Type Scheme

22. Create Screen
1. Administration/Issues/Screens
2. “Add Screen”
3. Create new screen

23. Create Field
1. Administration/Issues/Custom Fields
2. “Add a Custom Field”
3. Create new field
4. Add to screen

24. Create Screen Scheme
1. Administration/Issues/Screen Schemes
2. “Add Screen Scheme”
3. Create new Screen Scheme

25. Change Project’s Issue Type Screen Scheme
1. Administration/Project Admin
2. Screens/Default Issue Type Screen Scheme
3. “More”
4. “Actions/Use a different scheme”

26. Ta Dah!!!

27. Customization Example: Workflows

28. GreenHopper for Enterprise Visibility

29. Plugins: Epics
1. Administration/Plugins
2. Agile GreenHopper/GreenHopper Labs

30. Atlassian Suite
GreenHopper is part of a large suite of development
focused tools which include:
• Confluence: An enterprise collaboration tool (wiki)
• HipChat: Group chat
• Crucible: Code review
• Bamboo: Continuous integration
Many others….

31. The Atlassian Universe
Track and Collaborate

32. The Deeper Atlassian Universe
Distributed Version Control
Enterprise GIT Repo Management Unlimited GIT code hosting
Code Quality
Browse and Search Code Peer Code Review
Continuous Integration Java Code Coverage

33. Even Deeper into the Atlassian Universe
Issue Tracking for Mobile App Developers Connect to Eclipse, IntelliJ and Visual Studio
Git and Mercurial client for Mac

34. Next Steps
• Atlassian University: https://university.atlassian.com/
• Free trial:
http://www.atlassian.com/software/greenhopper/try/
• Several Jira books: Jira 4 Essential by Patrick Li

35. Survey: Visibility and You
What are your thoughts about increasing enterprise
visibility with GreenHopper?
• Too difficult
• Difficult but worth it
• Easy
• Other

36. After the webinar…
• We will send information to collect the PDU you will earn
from this webinar
• We will also send a link to the recorded webinar and
slides once they are posted online